<div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dear all,</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">I will soon report this in <b>MODTOOLS</b> in the CrossWire tracker, but this is to inform about the following:<br><br><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"><b style="line-height: normal;">emptyvss</b></span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: normal;"> does not detect all empty verses!!!</span></div>
<br>I suspect that it's looking for verses with the "null string" so it misses detecting any verse that <b><i>only</i></b> contains invisible XML content.<br><br>The main candidate of that class is the <b>last verse of each chapter</b>.<br>When the verse text is missing, such a verse still contains the XML milestone<br><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace;"><</span><span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">chapter eID="...." osisID="...." /></span><br></blockquote>
E.g.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><blockquote style="border-left: 3px solid rgb(200, 200, 200); border-top-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-right-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 200, 200); padding-left: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102);"><span style="font-family: Menlo, Consolas, "Courier New", monospace; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;"><chapter eID="gen31843" osisID="Jas.1"/></span><br></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br></div>I encountered exactly this problem yesterday while I was working on the <b>JST</b> module.<br>Some of the missing verses were the last one in various chapters.<br><br>I'm quite astounded that I've been using this utility for almost 15 years and it's only just come to light. It's a vital part of our armory for analysing new and updated modules.</div><div style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><br>
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